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Tanzania Judge orders Rwandan Freed Los Angeles Times November 17,2009

SUMMARY:Recently a U.N. appeals court overturned conviction of a former Rwandan president's brother in law. Protais Zigiranyirazo was sentenced to 20 years for organizing a massacre that left an approximant 1,000 dead during a 1994 genocide. During the genocide an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were murdered. Zigiranyirazo was an influential member of the government at the time. The ruling from the court was, "serious errors were committed" in Protais Zigiranyirazo's 2008 conviction and sentencing and ordered him freed.

REACTION: I belive that every member of the Rwandan goverment durring the time of their genocide should recived some form of punishment from the law. I would perfer to rerun Zigiranyirazo's trail if there were in fact errors the first time around.

I cannot believe that they could let Zigiranyirazo free when they know for a fact that he organized massacares. It shows that something is seriously rong with the UN. It is supposed to be an organization that supports human rights and now it is just ignoring the terrible human rights violations that are happening right under it's nose. Hannah M.

Reading this article was very appalling to me because he was very close to a president and there is proof of his involvement in the genocide. In the article it says that he organized a massacre and was a very influential person in the government while the genocide was going on. That right there implies that he was part of the genocide and I can't see why they took his sentence away because no errors were committed besides freeing someone who caused the death of 1,000 lives. - Sean C.  **

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